Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the words of the speech were the same if not the delivery . |
| 2 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 3 | British embarrassment was the greater since only the previous year the Prince of Wales had married Alexandra , daughter of the King of Denmark . |
| 4 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 5 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 6 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a left and then the right cut in so I had to straighten out . |